Handbag frame



Aug 3, 1937. w. c. HIERING 2,088,744

HANDBAG FRAME Filed May 6, 1956 ATTOR N EY Patented Aug. 3, 1937 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE Application May 6, 1936, Serial No. 78,158

3 Claims.

This invention relates to h-and bags, and more particularly to improvements in frames for the use in hand bags.

Heretofore, there have been produced frames 5 for hand bags comprising outwardly opening channelled frame members having positioned therein channelled inlays to which is attached the covering material for the hand bag. These inlays are usually secured to the frame members by bending a plurality of tabs integral with the frame members or by soldering the inlays to the frame members. Such expedients, while effective, are objectionable in that they increase the cost of making the hand bag as an appreciable amount of care is necessary in bending tabs, or soldering an inlay to a frame member, in order to prevent marring and distorting of the frame members.

It is, therefore, an object of this invention to provide a frame for hand bags in which inlays are secured to frame members without resort to bending of tabs over the inlays or soldering the inlays directly to the frame members.

A further object is the provision of a frame for a hand bag having laterally opening frame members in which are positioned inlays, said inlays being provided with protuberances for properly spacing the inlay from parts of the frame member, and the inlays being held in position by means of a pair of rivets or by tangs bent over the ends of the inlay.

These and other advantageous objects, which will later appear, are accomplished by the simple and practical construction and arrangement of parts hereinafter described and exhibited in the accompanying drawing, forming part hereof, and in which:

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a frame for hand bags, provided with an inlay, embodying my invention,

Fig. 2 is a view of an inlay made in accordance with the invention,

Fig. 3 is a View of a frame adapted to receive the inlay shown in Fig. 2,

Fig. 4 is a sectional View taken on line 4-4 of Fig. 1,

Fig. 5 is an enlarged View partly in section of one end of a leg of an inlay and frame member, Fig. 6 is a sectional view taken on line 6 6 of Fig. 5, and

shown a substantially U-shaped frame comprising a pair of frame members hingedly connected together. Each of the frame members has an inner side Wall 8 and an outer wall 9 at right angles to the wal1'8, said outer Wall 9 5 having an inturned ange I0 parallel to the wall 8, and of less width than wall 8. At the extremities of the legs of each member the side walls 8 are provided with tangs II for a purpose hereinafter described. 10

In Fig. 2 is shown an inlay adapted to be mounted 'm the frame member. The inlay comprises a channelled member having an inner Wall I2 and an outer wall I3, said channelled member conforming to the shape of the frame mem- 15 ber. The inner wall I2 which rests against the side Wall 8 of the frame member is of greater width than the Wall I3 and is provided along its marginal edge with a plurality of inwardly directed protuberances I4 which engage thev in- 20 ner side of the flange I0 to space the wall I2 from the ange I0 and at the same time to frictionally hold the inlay in position.

At the extremities of the legs of the inlay, the Wall I3 is cut at an angle as shown at I5 so 25 that when the inlay is mounted in the frame member, as shown in Fig. 1, the tangs II at the extremities of the side wall 8 are bent over the extremities of the inner Wall I 2 of the inlay (see Fig. 5) to securely hold the inlay in position in the frame member. This is the manner in which the frames are delivered to a bag manufacturer, that is, the inlays are securely attached to the frame member as above described. The bag covering material is then in- 35 serted in the inlay as shown in Fig. 4, after which the Wall I3 of the inlay is bent towards the wall I2 to clamp the bag covering material tightly to the inlay as shown in Fig. 1.

In Fig. '7 there is shown a modified form in 40 which the wall I2 of the inlay is secured to the side wall 8 by means of rivets I6.

From the above description it will be seen that I have provided a simple structure for hand bag frames employing inlays. In accordance with 45 my invention, as above stated, the inlays are secured to the frame member by either a pair of rivets, or a pair of bendable tangs at the extremities of the side walls of the frame member. This greatly simplifies the securing of the in- 50 lays to frame members and enables the assembling of inlays in frame members more rapidly than heretofore has been possible.

The foregoing disclosure is to be regarded as descriptive and illustrative only, and not as restricuve or'iim'itative of the invention, of which said outwardly directed wall having an inturned ange parallel to the side wall, a channelled inlay positioned in said frame member, said inlay opening towards said outwardly directed wall, the wall of the inlay engaging the side wall of the framev member being of greater width than the other wall of the inlay and having a plurality of inwardly directed protuberances engaging said inturned ange.

l 2. In a frame for hand bags, a frame member having an inner side wall, an outer wall connected to said side wall, said outer wall having an inturned flange parallel to the side wall, said inturned flange being of less Width than said side wall, a channelled inlay positioned in said frame member, said inlay opening towards said outer wall, said inlay having one wall thereof engaging the side wall of the frame member and being of l greater width than the other wall of the inlay, said wall of greater width having a plurality of inwardly directed protuberances engaging said inturned flange, and means at the extremities of said side wall for directly securing the wall of greater width of the inlay to said side wall.

3. In a frame for hand bags, a fra-me member having an inner side wall and an outwardly directed wall having an inturned flange parallel vto the side wall, a channelled inlay positioned in -the frame member having an outer wall and an inner wall of greater width than said outer wall, said inlay opening towards said outwardly directed wall, said inner wall engaging the side wall of the frame member and having a plurality of inwardly directed protuberances engaging the inturned ilange, and tangs at the extremities of said side wall bent overthe inner wall of the vinlay to secure the inlay to the side wall.

WILLIAM C. HIERING. 

